Chinese Republicans

The Republicans were a faction of Qing dynasty-era China politics that supported the creation of a republic and the overthrow of the corrupt monarchy. The Republicans believed in unrestricted trade, a state-run economy, the separation ofcrhurch an dstate, multiculturalism, and less spending on the military, and they wanted to restructure Chinese society in a way that benefited the oppressed classes. The party was often allied with the Reformers, gaining seats in the upper house together as an electoral bloc. In 1911, the party had a major success when the Tongmenghui secret society launched the Xinhai Revolution and overthrew the Qing dynasty, establishing a new republic. The Republicans would press for more and more reforms as an ally of the Kuomintang Sun, but their influence would decline with the advent of the conservative Kuomintang Chiang faction of politics.